Planets
The smallest planet in our solar system
What is Mercury?
All planets in our solar system revolve around this
What is the sun
The largest planet in our solar system
What is Jupiter
Earth rotates on this
What is Axis
Earth's number of moons
The 6th planet from the Sun
What is saturn
The home of the Red Spot
What is Jupiter?
The length of time it takes Earth to complete one rotation.
What is 24 hours?
Earth's protective atmosphere blocks this out
Damaging sun rays
The length of time it takes Earth to make one revolution
365 1/4 days
The only planet in our solar system that spins on its side
What is Uranus?
The two types of planets
Terrestrial (rock) and Gaseous (gas)
The season(s) occurring when the sun is pointed at Earth's equator
What is Fall and Spring
The 3th phase of the moon
What is the first quarter
The 8th moon phase
What is waning crescent
Saturns rings are made of this
What is ice and rock?
This separates the rock planets from the gas planets
What is the asteroid belt?
The cause of Earth's seasons
What is Earth's axial tilt as it revolves around the Sun
The number of tides that occur each day
What is 4, 2 high tides and 2 low tides
The tidal level during the New moon phase
What is high tide?
Pluto is no longer considered a planet because of these 2 reasons
What is irregular orbits and small size
The season occurring in Virginia when the northern hemisphere is tilted away from the sun
What is winter?
When the moon is in between the earth and the sun
What is New moon, sometimes a solar eclipse
The 6th moon phase
What is waning gibbous
The cause of the moon phases